The Supreme Court has handed down their eagerly awaited decision in the £3billion case of Lloyd v Google. The court blocked the claim by Richard Lloyd, representing 4 million iPhone users, from proce...
New Standard Contractual Clauses Required for EU Personal Data Transfers
Personal data cannot legally be transferred outside the EU/EEA (European Economic Area), or indeed the UK, without specific legal safeguards in place, unless the country in question has been deemed to...
Mandatory climate change reporting for organisations from 2022
The UK Government is proposing that from 2022 all large UK private companies and LLPs must include a report on climate change in their annual report. In this case, “large” means organisations with...
UK Modern Slavery Statement Registry for Large Organisations
The UK government has launched a Modern Slavery Statement Registry in order for organisations to publish the positive steps taken to address the risk of modern slavery in their supply chains. Includin...
Reasonable vs Best Endeavours?
Christian Moerch Corporate and commercial contracts often contain references to ‘best endeavours’ and ‘reasonable endeavours’. Have you ever considered the meaning of these words? In this note...
Rule against Penalties
Christian Moerch Yiannis Efthyvoulou Under the common law, there is a rule against penalties in contracts and such clauses are unenforceable. The rule is based on public policy – a party should not ...
UK Global Entrepreneur Programme
This note focuses on The Global Entrepreneur Programme, (GEP), a venture capital programme aimed at creating global companies from start-ups, using the United Kingdom as a strategic headquarters and b...
Terminating your Contract
Businesses will need to terminate their contracts from time to time for various reasons. It is very important that you get the termination right to avoid problems. For example, if the court disagrees ...
Launching Your Business – Our Services
This note focuses on some of the legal services and general assistance that Redfern Legal can provide to your business during the various stages of launching your business and our approach. In the ear...
Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – part 2
On 26 June 2020, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the “Act”) received the Royal Assent in response to the COVID-19 crisis to help companies struggling due to the pandemic. This ma...